I've made it! Three months completed in Europe and I've finally hit my 14th country and 25th overall. Following my epic ride share from Ljubljana, I reached the capital of Hungary and quickly began my final three days in Europe before departing for Asia for the next five months.

There's a small little country buried just south of the Austrian Alps and just north of the dense forests and stunning beaches of Croatia which often is overlooked by travelers from across the globe. Never in a million years would I have predicted a country in former Yugoslavia to become one of my all-time favorite countries to visit, but alas, it is. Slovenia has got to be one of the most underrated and absolutely incredible countries I've ever been able to visit, and I of all the countries in Europe I've seen, this one takes the cake with having something for everyone!

Croatia has recently (at least in my eyes) become a hot destination for travel and understandably so! The coastline is speckled with over a thousand islands and the interior is filled with gorgeous mountains and waterfalls. This country was truly a pleasure to visit, even if it was during the off-season for them.

If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much. My Dutch heritage rings through loud and clear every time I visit Amsterdam, and to this day it's still one of my favorite cities in Europe to visit. Not just for all of the stereotypical things Amsterdam is known for, either.

For many years Germany has been the king of beers. Dating back several hundred years, Germany has lead the way continuously in both their quality of beer and beer drinking abilities, and there is no better demonstration of this success than Oktoberfest, the yearly gathering for international beer drinkers to get together and revel in their commonalities.

Never in my life have I fully understood the depths that the Nazi's fell to in order to carry out their struggle to create a perfect people across Europe. Seeing Auschwitz firsthand is not something I will forget soon, and I hope that humanity doesn't forget it soon either.

Somehow I ended up in Zakopane, Poland, and boy am I glad I made it here. A little hiking time outside of the city was just what I needed for a few days before heading back to the cities. Like most of the other places I've ended up visiting, it has tended to come via a Google Maps search, and I've been getting pretty lucky. I guess that's the beauty of traveling, though. You really truly never know where your searching is going to take you, and that's why I'll continue to plot my next destinations with the same method: scroll, discover, and enjoy.

About a month before I was planning to arrive in Copenhagen, I found an $11 flight from there to Kaunas, Lithuania, a city I knew nothing about. Without thinking much, I bought the ticket fully expecting myself to possibly not even end up boarding my plane when the day came to head to the Baltics. Thankfully I did, and these three countries surprised me more than I could have imagined.

I've visited Denmark before, but my time spent in Copenhagen last year was abbreviated, in that the only weekend I was meant to spend in the city I visited Munich instead. So as much as I want to say I've "seen" Copenhagen before, I really can't. This was my chance to really see the city and get a feel for what it's all about.